Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Omnibus Spending Bill Could Quadruple H-2B Visa Program

An interesting article from www.numbersusa.com about the budget bill visa increase. This follows this post about immigrant shooters. Remember, “Amnesty” means ANY non-enforcement of existing immigration laws! This follows this comment and this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! Also, you can read two very interesting books HERE.Please follow me here.

Multiple reports seem to indicate that the must-pass omnibus spending
bill could quadruple the H-2B worker visa program. Congress must pass a
spending bill this week to avoid a government shutdown.

The omnibus could contain a bill co-sponsored by Sen. Barbara
Mikulski (D-Md.) and Sen. Thom Tillis’ (R-N.C.) that would quadruple the
number of H-2B work visas issed each year to foreign workers.
The H-2B visa allows non-agricultural foreign workers to work in the
U.S. on a temporary or seasonal basis. The current cap for H-2B visas is
66,000 per year. The bill would not raise the cap but would exclude any
foreign worker who received an H-2B visa in the last three years. This
would allow employers to hire new and returning H-2B workers, raising
the number to around 264,000 workers per year.
The bill would also shift control of the program from the Department
of Labor, which is responsible for protecting American and foreign
workers from exploitation and abuse, to the Department of Homeland
Security instead. Recently Buzzfeed did an expose on the H-2B visa and how it replaces American workers and exploits foreign workers.
This week several senators including presidential candidate Bernie
Sanders (D-Vt.), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Sen. Richard
Durbin (D-Ill.) wrote a letter opposing the bill saying it, “would
effectively rollback many basic protections for U.S. and foreign
workers.” They also discussed the negative impact the bill would have on
American workers as they are replaced with cheaper foreign labor.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, (R-Ala.) also wrote a letter saying, “Now is not
the time to advance legislation further depressing wages and employment
of U.S. workers.”
For more Read more on this story at Buzzfeed.